DVD with lots of bad sectors

aidenn0 · 3rd April 2018, 02:29

I am able to play and rip all but one of my DVDs successfully on linux. There is one that is giving me no end of issues, and I suspect some sort of copy protection scheme is involved.

It has thousands of bad sectors, starting about halfway through the disc; both mplayer and vlc go crazy, but in different ways. MakeMKV generates a file that gets stuck in a ~3s loop at that same point. It plays flawlessly in any set-top player I've tried though. Any suggestions for dealing with this?

I'm seriously considering just playing it on my set-top box and capturing via HDMI at this point.

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aidenn0 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2018 Posts: 6	DVD with lots of bad sectors I am able to play and rip all but one of my DVDs successfully on linux. There is one that is giving me no end of issues, and I suspect some sort of copy protection scheme is involved. It has thousands of bad sectors, starting about halfway through the disc; both mplayer and vlc go crazy, but in different ways. MakeMKV generates a file that gets stuck in a ~3s loop at that same point. It plays flawlessly in any set-top player I've tried though. Any suggestions for dealing with this? I'm seriously considering just playing it on my set-top box and capturing via HDMI at this point.